Day 79 - Ballot Monkeys

Five days golf in a row and the body is starting to tire... but I do have three days off the recuperate before the Spring Meeting at the weekend!  We had our regular Tuesday group today: 6 people playing and all returned to the Clubhouse at the end of the 18 holes looking and feeling thoroughly windswept!

The weather bore no resemblance to the previous day's Spring sunshine, instead we were buffeted around by winds approaching 40 mph. This led to trolleys being blown over, hats scurrying down the fairways and par 5s either being reachable in 2 shots or else in 4+, depending which way the wind was blowing.  Scores were as a result more modest than normal, but still only 1 point separated the two teams.

We spent the rest of the afternoon analysing the likely outcome of the General Election later this week. I am not sure that we shed any great light on the issues, but then I feel pretty much the same way about the wall-to-wall radio discussions that currently pollute the airwaves.  Classic FM is providing a welcome refuge on the car radio...

I shared that we were enjoying the recent Channel 4 series, Ballot Monkeys, which had had me giggling the previous evening: right up top date, probably unfair, but some of the jibes hit me just in the right place. Written by Andy Hamilton and starring Ben Miller and Hugh Dennis, amongst others it seems to have struck a chord.

Managed to catch this evening episode after an entertaining dinner out with friends at the Old Plough in Stoke d'Abernon. Could not believe it: walked in there at 8 pm to find every table (apart from ours!) occupied and the place buzzing... on a Tuesday night!